Xiangyang, beyond the north of Shiliang Mountain, that vast land, is now a chaotic, cruel, raging scene, and then unfolded on the picture is the iron horse Jinge, is countless flags swaying with the wind under the sky, the autumn wind in the wilderness swept through the sound of the blade sweeping the sky, like a piercing wail swept over the broken city wall of Hannan County.

Not long ago, after Li Xiaogong and Li Daozong took Xiyang and Nanyang, Li Xiaogong attacked Xiaoliang's Xiangyang County after converging with 40,000 Tang troops in Fangling Yongqing.

The sudden southward movement of tens of thousands of Tang troops set off a huge storm in the entire Jingxiang and even the entire Xiaoliang, and the king of Dongping, Jati, was defeated in Xiangyang and retreated to Hannan. Followed by Li Xiaogong with a thunderous momentum, swept away 23 cities including Xiangyang City, in addition to the Hannan City in front of him and Shanghong City in the southeast, the Tang Army's way south to Jingling has been cleared, Xiaoliang's north gate has been opened, and the situation is precarious. If Jingling is lost, the five counties of Chunling, Handong, Yiyang, Anlu, and Yongan will also be isolated by the Tang army north of Hanshui, and Yiling County will also fall into the danger of outflanking.

At this time, the sky was dark, and only the burned siege equipment under the city of Hannam was still emitting a faint firelight, and under the dim light of the fire, it was a wreckage. The towers of the city were in ruins, and broken bricks and tiles were scattered all over the city......

No one expected that under the successive attacks of Li Xiaogong's army, Hannan City, which was countless times lower than Xiangyang City, could still survive. However, it is not far from being breached.

The general of the Tang army who was responsible for the siege of the city was named Lu Zushang, the word Jiliang, and his father Lu Xi served as a general of the tiger in the Sui Dynasty. The family is rich and wealthy, good at charity, and is famous for chivalry. In the middle and late stages of the Great Cause, when Lu Zushang was nineteen years old, he recruited villagers to protect the township and resist the rogues. After Yu Wenhua and launched the Jiangdu Rebellion, Lu Zushang occupied Honzhou and claimed to be the assassin, stabbing blood and swearing to everyone, and the soldiers were moved to tears. After Yang Qi succeeded to the throne in Luoyang, he returned to obedience, and after Wang Shichong usurped the throne, Lu Zushang led his warriors to enter the customs and surrender to the Tang Dynasty, becoming a young general under Li Xiaogong who was both wise and brave.

Now the sky is very light and very light, above the city tower, there are some people standing there numbly, these people were forcibly requisitioned to defend the city, the city head is full of Xiao army flags, the banner is drooping, there is no spirit on the ground, just like the Xiao Liang soldiers and civilians who defend the city. In the past half a month, Hannan City has been connected to Mengcheng by Lu Zushang, and the morale of the soldiers and civilians in the city has long been crushed into powder......

The Tang army tried to persuade Xiao Liang Dongping Wang Yanti, who was defending the city, but he was a hard man who would rather die than surrender, and turned a blind eye to the Tang army's surrender, and dragged the Tang army for more than half a month through Hannan City.

Li Xiaogong originally had the idea of a quick victory, gathered a large army to go south to Xiangyang, and then went down to Jinglinghe, but he did not expect that the partial division would conquer the entire territory of Yiling and Chunling, but the main force was blocked here for more than ten days. This made Li Xiaogong very depressed.

"Our army swept Xiangyang, Chunling, and Yiling, but Hannan City was nailed here, what is this? It's a slap in the face, the important thing is that after we take Xiangyang here, we need to mobilize civilian officials to govern it, and then the army will continue to attack the city and plunder the land. Therefore, the existence of Hannam City will give birth to many variables. Moreover, Xiao Mo has already reacted, he sent Zheng Wenxiu, the king of Chu, to lead the army north, and reinforcements from all walks of life have also been assembled in Nanjun, we must hurry up and grasp that this city must be taken tonight. ”

In the evening, Li Xiaogong attacked again.

Xiao Jun and the people have experienced more than half a month of war, with countless casualties, but the people have a certain combat power, but they have been besieged for so long, the storage of grain and grass is not enough, the people and soldiers are all full of vegetables, and more importantly, the equipment to defend the city has been exhausted. The Tang army was not prepared for the siege equipment at the beginning, and it had developed to the point that the ladders and siege cones were complete, and the time was only a few days.

The arrows covered the top of the city wall, and the Xiao army defending the city was still colored, and the Tang army was holding a bow and arrow, erecting a ladder and climbing up bravely, and the Xiao army above smashed the beams and bricks and stones removed from the houses. As soon as a Xiao pawn hit a Tang army, an arrow swept up from between the iron streams below, straight into his throat, and came from the back of his neck, which was bloody and terrifying.

The flying arrows and the roar of the surging crowd boiled over.

A Tang army jumped on the city wall, and several Xiao soldiers who had been waiting for a long time did not wait for him to stand on the top of the city, so they rushed up, rushed over and stabbed him to death with a spear, and not far away, another Tang army climbed up from outside the city wall, saw the situation here, and immediately brandished a horizontal knife and killed two Xiao soldiers, and several Xiao soldiers stepped forward to fight him, and after he killed a few people, he killed him. After this person's desperate delay, more Tang troops poured up from the city wall......

"I only heard that Xiao Milling has Dong Jingzhen, King of Jin, Lei Shimeng, King of Qin, Zheng Wenxiu, King of Chu, Xu Xuanche, King of Yan, King Wan Zan of Lu, King Zhang Xiu of Qi, and Yang Daosheng of Song, among which Dong Jingzhen, King of Jin and Zhang Xiu, King of Qi, were eliminated by Xiao Mill one by one. As for this Dongping Wang Yanti, I have never heard of his reputation before, I thought that when I went south, I should be like a bamboo, who would have thought that I would be entangled by this person for so long...... If it weren't for our army going south, this person would be nameless for the rest of his life, heh, Xiangyang is his famous battle...... He's a well-deserved death......"

Li Xiaogong's bland words revealed a piercing coldness, and in the surging iron flow of the Tang army, he let go of his bowstring, took out an iron arrow from his quiver, and searched the city.

During the siege and defense of the city at night, torches were lit on both sides, so the line of sight was quite clear. Li Xiaogong clearly saw a tall figure, running around the city, madly killing the Tang army who had climbed to the top of the city, this person was wearing bright armor, and led a pair of fierce recruits to fight back and forth on the city wall.

Li Xiaogong stared at the figure tightly, the cold arrow cluster had already set on the bowstring, at this moment Li Xiaogong was two hundred steps away from the general, and the strong bow was pulled and creaked, as if it would break at any time.

The Li family is a long-term general, they have a great study of archery, and several generations have been famous for their good archery: Li Xiaogong's great-grandfather Li Hu is famous for riding and shooting, Li Yuan's father Li Yu wears a hundred shots through the money hole in a hundred steps, and Li Yuan can also shoot the two eyes of the peacock screen at a hundred steps away. Li Shimin, Li Yuanji, Li Xiaogong, and Li Daozong are also marksmen, especially Li Zhiyun, who was executed in Chang'an by the Yin Shishi, a fourteen-year-old child, is even more amazing in archery, and can be called the crown of the whole family.

It is not unreasonable for the Li family to claim to be the descendants of Li Guang, and the archery training method handed down by their ancestors is extremely reasonable and effective.

When the figure was the clearest, Li Xiaogong spread his hand, and the feather arrow broke through the air and disappeared into the darkness......

At this moment, the city and the city suddenly quieted down, Li Xiaogong put down the longbow and said lightly: "Continue to attack the city and bury it!" ”

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When autumn swept in, the battle between Li Tang and Xiao Liang spread in all directions, causing different reactions in different places.

For Li Tang, who has been repeatedly defeated in the hands of the Great Sui, it is naturally a jubilation.

Li Xiaogong, the king of Zhao County, led his army from Fangling County, and in less than a month, he achieved the glorious results of destroying Zhu Cang in the north and capturing Xiyang and Nanyang, and Xiaoliang in the south and winning Xiangyang and Yiling Chunling. Such a victory, Li Tang really needs it too much.

Li Yuan was happy, and changed Li Tang's capital from Fangling County to Xiangyang City, and his current palace is a palace built by Xiao Miao, the scale is far inferior to Daxing Palace, and the momentum is not as grand as Daxing Palace, and it is also a little less than the sword and sword, and the accumulation of years. But compared with Daxing Palace, it has a little more wind and snow, and the soft and graceful temperament of the Jiangnan Water Town, overall, Li Yuan is still quite satisfied.

While everyone rejoiced at Li Xiaogong's victory, some people were deeply worried about it.

In a separate courtyard palace in the Imperial Palace, the burning butter wax emitted a warm light, and the guards stood guard in the dark corners of the surrounding area, and if they did not pay attention, their presence here was not even as good as the air.

In the thick night, from time to time there was the sound of turning books, Li Shimin, the king of Jin, was wearing a regular suit, his hair was scattered on his shoulders, and he was expressionlessly flipping through a book of Sun Tzu's Art of War printed by the Great Sui.

The fiasco on the western front of the Guanzhong Campaign caused him to lose 150,000 elites and 150,000 Tuntian troops, which were well-trained, and were the main force of Li Tang in Guanzhong and the Northern Imperial Sui Dynasty, and also the capital of Li Tangse's monopoly and unification of the world. But this vital capital, in the end, couldn't even go back to Guanzhong, and the more than 300,000 troops did not play even a little bit of value, and they were defeated by him Li Shimin.

The consequence of the defeat of this army was that Li Tang Junchen rolled out of Chang'an, Guanzhong, and Yongzhou in an extremely humiliating way...... It can be said that Li Shimin, who is in charge of all the elite forces of Li Tang, is fully responsible for Li Tang's fiasco.

Although his father took all the blame for the failure, did not hold anyone accountable for his faults, and did not reduce his power, his father transferred Liu Hongji, Qiu Xinggong, Duan Zhixuan, Yin Kaishan, Gao Shilian and others from his cronies in the civil and military forces from his command, and served as officials in Danchang, Yicheng, Xicheng, Qinghua, Tongchuan and other counties, and the vast majority of them were classified into the civil official system, which also means that these people have no chance to lead the army, and it is impossible for them to stay by his side Li Shimin and help him.

More importantly, his fourth brother Li Yuanji officially embarked on the road of military and martial arts, and will be in charge of the 20,000 main forces of 20,000 Li Tang, and it is the kind of strong army that asks people to give people and things to things, if Li Yuanji does the first step well, then he will share more than half of the military power in the future.

Li Yuanji regards his eldest brother Li Jiancheng as his father, and obeys Li Jiancheng's words, he is in charge of this army, which is no different from Li Jiancheng being in charge. That is to say, after the Guanzhong War, Li Tang's power has changed greatly, and the eldest brother Li Jiancheng has become the big winner of this war, while he Li Shimin has become the biggest loser.

Li Shimin had nothing to say about this, so he could only keep his dissatisfaction in his heart, after all, his defeat in the Hehuang area of Liangzhou for thousands of miles attracted the collective criticism of the Manchu Dynasty and Li Tang, and even his wife's maiden family, Dugu, was dissatisfied with him.

Li Shimin was thinking about how to save his reputation, he urgently needed a victory to save his image, and Yang Tong would definitely not get anything cheap, so he thought of the idea of beating Xiao Miao, a soft persimmon, as long as Xiao Miao, as long as he exterminated Xiao Miao, he could restore his prestige by opening up territory for Li Tang in the south.

But who would have thought that he regarded it as a great achievement to wash away the shame, and was handed over by his father to Li Xiaogong, who was close to Li Jiancheng, and the other party also did a good job, only with tens of thousands of temporarily recruited weak brigades, he captured the five counties of Xiyang, Nanyang, Xiangyang, Yiling, and Chunling without waste.

The better Li Xiaogong fought on the front line, the more he could show Li Shimin's incompetence and turn him into a waste. After all, when he Li Shimin was at his peak, he had more than 300,000 elites. You have so many elite divisions, you can't even win a battle, and you have defeated the army, you are not a waste who is a waste?

All kinds of rumors made Li Shimin so angry that he almost vomited blood. He felt that Xiao Miao's soft persimmon should be beaten by himself, rather than achieving the name of Li Xiaogong, and it was a waste to give Li Xiaogong the name of the god of war and the god of war.

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